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Stop slacking, C4H4AsH! | TypicalNerd’s first year undergrad GYG (2023 - 2024)

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Original post by PAT_22
I witness her being roll called at LMH! We had to have a roll call to register all the new people in our college, and it was kinda crazy ngl. (I got a glimpse when Emma Watson was called so it was pretty cool - no pics tho)

Yea I didn't spot any sign of her walking to the Sheldonian with the rest of the new LMHers so idk.


I see. There wasn’t so much of a roll call at St John’s - on matriculation day, we just ticked our names off a list, picked up a named envelope and waited in Front Quad for us to be guided to the Sheldonian through the college gardens.

How did you find matriculation?
Original post by 5hyl33n
Thank you. :woo:

It's going well so far, thank you for asking. Very busy, but that is to be expected. How is university so far on your end?

Oops. Forgot to respond to this (sorry!)

Not too bad at the moment. Busier than A levels typically were (though I’m managing to get the work done so far but at a slower pace than I would like), but I’m enjoying the challenge and uni life so far.

I’m currently writing up two lab reports that are due for tomorrow and hoping they will be to an acceptable standard (I’m currently trying to worm my way out of the shit because in the TLC part of one of the practicals, one of the solutions containing a reference sample was too concentrated so there is a streak rather than a spot, so this has thrown off the results).
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Original post by TypicalNerd
I see. There wasn’t so much of a roll call at St John’s - on matriculation day, we just ticked our names off a list, picked up a named envelope and waited in Front Quad for us to be guided to the Sheldonian through the college gardens.

How did you find matriculation?


It was ok lol (It isn't my type of thing to do on a Saturday but we took lots of pics with friends so that was nice)
Original post by TypicalNerd
Oops. Forgot to respond to this (sorry!)

Not too bad at the moment. Busier than A levels typically were (though I’m managing to get the work done so far but at a slower pace than I would like), but I’m enjoying the challenge and uni life so far.

I’m currently writing up two lab reports that are due for tomorrow and hoping they will be to an acceptable standard (I’m currently trying to worm my way out of the shit because in the TLC part of one of the practicals, one of the solutions containing a reference sample was too concentrated so there is a streak rather than a spot, so this has thrown off the results).

No problem. :nah:

Excellent. How did the lab write-up go?

I have my first lab this Thursday (we are synthesising tetraphenyltin).
Original post by 5hyl33n
No problem. :nah:

Excellent. How did the lab write-up go?

I have my first lab this Thursday (we are synthesising tetraphenyltin).

The first one is basically done. Although I had some sketchy results because I’m a fairly meh experimentalist, I think I have sufficiently summarised everything I did and how I could improve the procedure should I ever repeat it.

The second lab report is well under way and the results are looking to be very convincing. It should be done before I go to bed at 4 am (which I am prepared to do given I have 2 lectures tomorrow and that’s all I absolutely must do).
Original post by TypicalNerd
The first one is basically done. Although I had some sketchy results because I’m a fairly meh experimentalist, I think I have sufficiently summarised everything I did and how I could improve the procedure should I ever repeat it.

The second lab report is well under way and the results are looking to be very convincing. It should be done before I go to bed at 4 am (which I am prepared to do given I have 2 lectures tomorrow and that’s all I absolutely must do).


Just wanted to drop in and say I'm loving your GYG blog, and I look forward to following it closely :smile:
Original post by brainzistheword
Just wanted to drop in and say I'm loving your GYG blog, and I look forward to following it closely :smile:


Thanks. Glad to hear.

There’s not a huge amount going on at present on this GYG, so I’ll need to write another update once I have the time to do so (probably some time later on tomorrow).
Update number I can’t be bloody bothered to count ffs:

Not a huge amount has happened of late because I’ve been pressing on with work and have spent some time this week literally just doing nothing because it’s no good overworking yourself.

I have two more practical write ups to sort out and I’m not looking forward to dealing with them and the post-lab interviews as I feel my results weren’t great and I kinda bs-ed my way through identifying a number of organic compounds using the 1H NMR and IR spectra (somehow my deductions appear to be correct according to one of the lab supervisors, but at least by my own admission, my logic behind them is pretty unsound).

This week is thankfully the week where I don’t actually have to do any practicals (but I still have to hand in the reports for the ones from last week), which means I can finally get all my tute sheets sorted for maths and deal with the organic chemistry work, too.

In terms of things I plan on doing outside of study, I haven’t really thought that far ahead. I may take myself out for a nice dinner (or just book another place at a formal) and find a nice bottle of wine to enjoy one evening.

Update 6: Pretty much nothing to see here

Yet again, relatively little has happened this week. The formal I attended on Tuesday was wonderful and I have handed in both the ghastly practical write ups I mentioned in my last update. Strangely enough my results were actually not that awful, despite how useless my attempts to analyse the NMR spectra with MestReNova were.

Today’s plans involve pressing on with the various tutorial sheets, enjoying a nice glass of red wine in the evening (probably the Jam Shed shiraz, which I really recommend by the way) and praying my organic chemistry tutor doesn’t murder me in the next tutorial for being rather inept at drawing all the possible stereoisomers of a given compound.
Yay for formal and red wine! :biggrin: Try not to worry too much about the work you're handing in atm: firstly I'm sure it's better than you realise, and secondly (and more importantly) no reasonable tutor will expect huge amounts from you the first term :nah:

:h:
Original post by TypicalNerd
I kinda bs-ed my way through identifying a number of organic compounds using the 1H NMR and IR spectra


I 100% agree with your approach. Is there really any other way to do it?!
Original post by bl0bf1sh
I 100% agree with your approach. Is there really any other way to do it?!

I assume so - you could annotate the spectrum to death with every rule under the sun and make a comment about how coupling constants have screwed over the splitting, but I just wanted the postlab over and done with.
Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd
Yay for formal and red wine! :biggrin: Try not to worry too much about the work you're handing in atm: firstly I'm sure it's better than you realise, and secondly (and more importantly) no reasonable tutor will expect huge amounts from you the first term :nah:

:h:


Indeed yay for formals and red wine.

I think the problem is my standards are very high and a lot of silly mistakes were made. I deffo need to be less of a perfectionist in future.
It seems I’ve not been keeping this thread updated… I rather suspected that might happen.

So far, all is well and I am generally managing the workload (though my inorganic chemistry tutor is probably going to disagree with that, given I didn’t hand in my last tute sheet - oops).

I’ve really not done a whole lot besides the usual. I definitely do think Oxford so far has improved my work ethic and productivity as well as my ability to schedule my time (though there is definitely room for improvement - as evidenced by the fact I missed one tute sheet and haven’t done a lot to update this thread).

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